ligature

glyph resulting from the orthographic combination or calligraphic ornementation of two or more basic letter forms into a single typographic or handwritten character
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ligature

Summary

ligature ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ligature's image is recorded as Ligatures.svg[2].
  • ligature's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 125367636[3].
  • ligature's subclass of is recorded as glyph[4].
  • ligature's subclass of is recorded as letterform component[5].
  • ligature's Commons category is recorded as Ligatures[6].
  • ligature's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q9610 (ben)-Titodutta-যুক্তাক্ষর.wav[7].
  • ligature's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/023tmk[8].
  • ligature's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Typographic ligatures[9].
  • ligature's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300195902[10].
  • ligature's facet of is recorded as writing system[11].
  • ligature's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • ligature's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/ligature-calligraphy[13].
  • ligature's used by is recorded as typography[14].
  • ligature's different from is recorded as kerning[15].
  • ligature's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12340t0f[16].
  • ligature's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11c67wq7x4[17].
  • ligature's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000002064[18].
  • ligature's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/7507[19].
  • ligature's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 06836975-n[20].
  • ligature's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 45496[21].
  • ligature's TDKIV Wikibase ID is recorded as 1992[22].

Why It Matters

ligature ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (228 views/month).[1] ligature has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] ligature is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . Wikibase TDKIV. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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